“ The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in darkness and silence," at a lofty remove from brute reality.… Burkhard Bilger
“ My hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink. When the championship or the future of the company is on the line,… Richard H. Thaler
“ Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances. Alberto Cairo
“ It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens. Alberto Cairo
“ Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data… Eli Pariser
“ He handed Mae a piece of paper, on which he'd written, in crude all capitals, a list of assertions under the headline "The Rights of Humans in a Digital Age." Mae scanned it, catching passages: "We mu… Dave Eggers
“ The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . .… Daniel Keys Moran
“ You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting. E.A. Bucchianeri
“ Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to pe… Stephen L. Burns
“ The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. But the spirit of the whole is processional. The power, that has said to all these things that they a… Charles Fort
“ Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference. Mike Schmoker
